Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 11.30 in the night of the 15th of Septem- ber, 1949, the parents of a fisherman and two boys reported that their sons had put out in the motor fishing boat Virgin, of Castlebay, but were now overdue. The life-boat Lloyd's left her moorings at five minutes past midnight in a calm sea, with a light northerly breeze and found the Virgin two miles out with her engine broken down.

The life-boat towed her in and reached her station again at one o'clock.— Rewards, £5 16s..